Army’s Kohen Rankin Blasts 51.62 100 Breast At ECAC Championships For Likely NCAA Invite

2024 Jap Faculty Athletic Convention Championships

March 1-3, 2024
Annapolis, MD
Lejeune Corridor
SCY (25 yards)
Outcomes

Military sophomore Kohen Rankin highlighted a record-charged Jap Faculty Athletic Convention (ECAC) Championship meet over the weekend with a scorching swim within the 100 breaststroke.

The ECAC Championships options swimmers throughout all three NCAA divisions, sometimes that includes athletes who didn’t race at their respective convention meets together with those that are going for particular occasions for potential NCAA qualification.

Coming off profitable a second consecutive Patriot League title simply over every week in the past, Rankin rocketed to a time of 51.62 within the 100 breast, reducing the ECAC, Patriot League and Military faculty data whereas all however guaranteeing himself a spot on the NCAA Championships for the primary time.

Rankin first broke his personal ECAC Document of 52.68 set final season, whereas additionally knocking off his Patriot League mark of 52.06 set at this February’s convention championships, within the prelims in a time of 51.99 earlier than getting right down to 51.62 within the ultimate.

The 20-year-old got here into the postseason with a private finest time of 52.36, set in March 2022 previous to his collegiate profession. His quickest swim as a freshman got here in at 52.61.

Final season, 51.90 was the time required to earn an invitation to the NCAA Championships, so Rankin has seemingly assured himself a spot as we await the final main convention meet, Males’s Pac-12s, to run this weekend earlier than NCAA psych sheets are launched. Rankin’s time at present ranks him twentieth within the nation.

OTHER MEN’S HIGHLIGHTS

Along with Rankin’s swim, 10 different ECAC Data fell on the meet, six of which have been on the lads’s aspect.

Navy was accountable for 5 of these males’s data, together with a pair within the free relays.

Within the 200 free relay, the Midshipmen quartet of Lachlan Andrew (20.12), Simon Thompson (19.65), Garrett McGovern (19.90) and Austin Lockhart (19.35) mixed for a time of 1:19.02, reducing the earlier mark of 1:19.36 set by Navy in 2022.

Lockhart added a meet report of his personal within the 100 free, setting a PB of 44.24 within the ultimate after initially reducing the 44.40 mark initially set in 2009 with a 44.35 prelim displaying.

The 800 free relay noticed Stephan Aguirre (1:37.17), Kellan Pattison (1:38.36), Evan McKelvey (1:38.13) and Ben Mauldin (1:37.17) clock a time of 6:30.83, obliterating the ECAC Document of 6:35.91 set by Navy in 2015.

Navy went on to comb the workforce titles, and Mauldin was one of many prime particular person performers for the Midshipmen with a pair of wins within the 200 free (1:36.74) and 500 free (4:18.41), each new private bests. He was additionally the runner-up within the 1650 in a time of 15:06.60.

Navy additionally noticed an enormous swim come from freshman Coleman Yates, who dropped a large finest time of three:51.79 within the 400 IM ultimate to knock off the meet report of three:53.30 set by Columbia’s James Delgado in 2014. Coming into the meet, Yates had solely damaged 4:00 as soon as, and it got here pre-college on the 2022 Florida Spring Senior Championships (3:58.04).

His sophomore teammate George Brooker III additionally went below the previous report in 3:52.84.

We additionally noticed Loyola (MD) freshman Joe Hayburn set a lifetime finest and ECAC Document of 47.09 within the prelims of the 100 again, reducing the 12-year-old report of 47.51 set by Pitt’s Adam Maczewsk earlier than profitable the ultimate in 47.27.

On Sunday, Hayburn swam the race once more in a time trial and broke 47 seconds for the primary time in 46.80, additionally a brand new Loyola Document.

Within the 200 medley relay, it was Princeton getting the job finished with a brand new meet report in 1:27.18, as Yanning Zhang (21.97), Kael Mlinek (23.63), Finn Dowdall (21.13) and Billy Swartwout (20.45) mixed to decrease Navy’s previous ECAC Document of 1:28.88 from 2018, with the Midshipmen additionally getting below that point in 1:28.19, together with a 19.41 anchor from Lockhart.

Remaining Group Scores – Males

1. Navy, 894
Columbia, 465.50
Bucknell, 415
Princeton, 331
Loyola, 316
Rider, 237
Fairfield, 159
Pennsylvania, 127.50
Yale, 109
Baruch, 95

WOMEN’S HIGHLIGHTS

On the ladies’s aspect, American College’s Mimi Watts had one of many prime performances on the opening day within the 50 free, firing off a time of twenty-two.47 within the ultimate to interrupt the 2016 meet report of twenty-two.61 beforehand held by Penn’s Rochelle Dong.

Watts was barely faster the week prior, nonetheless, setting a PB en path to profitable the Patriot League title in 22.38.

Two different ECAC Data from 2016 went down within the ladies’s 200 free and 100 breast.

Within the 200 free, Penn State’s Catherine Meisner set a season-best time of 1:46.29 to get below the earlier mark of 1:46.65 held by Virginia’s Eryn Eddy.

Meisner, who was .01 slower within the Massive Ten comfort ultimate one week earlier to position eleventh, holds a PB of 1:45.95 on the 2023 Massive Tens. She additionally received the ECAC title within the 100 free in 49.98, three-tenths shy of her lifetime finest.

Yale’s Jessey Li clocked 1:00.44 within the 100 breast prelims to interrupt the previous report of 1:00.82 held by Rutgers’ Rachel Stoddard, with Li occurring to win the ultimate in 1:00.50.

Li was the Ivy League runner-up final week (1:00.34) after profitable the convention title final season in what stays her finest time of 59.96.

The 400 medley relay noticed the Rutgers quartet of Martyna Piesko (54.54), Tina Celik (1:00.34), Vika Kostromina (55.27) and Ella Corridor (52.15) contact in 3:42.30 to decrease the 2016 meet report of three:42.93 held by UVA.

Loyola senior Lily Mead was one other standout on the competitors, profitable the 200 again and 200 IM whereas setting a private finest time en path to a runner-up end within the 400 IM (4:16.44)—which was received by JMU’s Jess Pryne (4:16.27).

Within the 200 IM, Mead’s time of 1:59.17 was quicker than she went the week prior on the Patriot League Championships the place she was 2nd.

Remaining Group Scores – Girls (Prime 10)

Navy, 747.50
Bucknell, 587
Pennsylvania, 409.50
Columbia, 372.50
Loyola, 303
Rutgers, 201
Rider, 138
Manhattan, 133.50
James Madison, 129
Frostburg State, 85

Main Award Winners

ECAC Girls’s Open Swimmer of the Meet: Lily Mead from Loyola
ECAC Girls’s Open Coach of the Meet: John Morrison from Navy
ECAC Males’s Open Swimmer of the Meet: Ben Mauldin from Navy
ECAC Males’s Open Coach of the Meet: Invoice Roberts from Navy